The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-29
WORK AND PLAY.
Why Business Should Not Become Slavery
or Play Dissipation.

All work and no play is bad; all play
and no work is worse. Without at
tempting to compare the habits OF dif-
ferent nationalities. which, to be valu-
able, would require consideration OF
the differences in climate, wish sim
ply to note the habits of different men
and families in single locality.
write only of business and profess
sioAal mon, whose circumstances are |
about the same. Some plod on from |
January to January at hard routine
work. without thought of vacation
or recreation. When persuaded by |
friends to take ''day off, their hearts |
are not in it, and they get little enjoy
ment or profit out Of it 1t is no part
of their plan to provide. either for
themselves or their families, amuse-
ments or holidays
Others, perhaps their next : door
neighbors. go to the other extreme,
and seem bent upon having good
time, no matter what becomes OF
business or the bank account In win
ter it is one round of parties, theaters
and operas; in summer it is q constant
rush to mountain, lake or seashore. not
to quietly rest, but to have what they
call good time" and from which
they generally return "all tired out"
A third class show us far better way.
Treating life with its cares and respon-
sibilties as serious affair, they man.
are to have on hand the year round
good stock of cheerful happiness. They
love their work and their homes, and
seek special rest-days and recreations
in the interest of both. They rest and
play on principle, and consider the
money spent in this way good invest
ment They do not 'shut up house"
and pack off at given time to given
place merely to be fashionable. They
| do not stay month when a week is all
they need. They do not go thousand
miles from home when lovely spot
only fifty miles away suits them better.
If it be more convenient for part OF the
family to go from home at time they
arrange it in that way. II there are
children. especially boys, they are con-
sidered in the plans and places adopted.
Children not only enjoy a trip away
from home. but they need to be taught
how to nationally enjoy life.
OF course | am not now writing OF
rich bachelors, or of families OF un-
limited wealth, but of the well-to-do
middle class. Their homes are the life
and security of the community in
which they live.
Manifestly our third-class show the
best sense, which is the best philoso-
ply. They do not worry over their
work like the frst-class. nor over their
play like the second class.
Not SO much concerned about what
others think, they think and plan for
themselves, not in a selfish way, but
with due regard to tho length of their
purse, the demands of health, and the
number and age of their children. II
they can not do just what they would
like they do the next best thing. They
get the most out of every thing, and
always come home with the feeling
that they have had an enjoyable time
OF course every family should save
money, be it ever so little, for "a rainy
day." for old age, ETC.. but it is bac
philosophy to save money at the ex
pense of every thing else. coulc
name a score of families who are doing
exactly that thing They are saving
money, but they are losing health
good spirits, youth, freshness and socia
qualities. They drop out of society
They lose interest in the present. ane
are dying in many ways before thei
time. Their children lack the happy
buoyant spirit. A tinge of sadness i
felt as you enter their homes. The.
are saving money at too great cost
When the parents are dead. and TIN
children grow to manhood, the inner
tied money will never restore what wa
lost. To be happy is an art requiring
lifetime of practice. Parents ough
not to bury themselves in the supposed
, interest of their children, but witt
, their children live for them.
. A thousand dollars at the age O
twenty-one, with a happy experience
, and memory of home and childhood
, is better for boy than ten thousan'
without these. A joyless childhood a
D we'll as an idle childhood will tell sadl
, upon manhood. Avoid both. Thi
{ happy mixture of work and play afford
opportunity to reveal the child unit
himself in the interest of his moral edu
: cation.
know a family in which are tw
$ young, strong, healthy boys. Whe
s work is to be done, each is willing tina
Q the other should do it. Each ofte
. pleads that he is tired, or that it
! "brother's turn" to do an errand fo
Q mamma. Both often worry MANN
: by not being ready for breakfast, ett
s Not long since an excursion was ar
j nounced at low rates, to beautifr
, place where boating and fishing an
Q bathing were excellent Both boy
: were eager to go. They pleaded lik
o lawyers, and met every objection
Il They agreed to every condition. !
It order to get the earliest train the
e were up before daylight-did not hay
s to be called twice. They ran on ever
T. errand without word of protes
|. They helped with baskets and bas
IS gage, and when the place was reache
# they never tired of rowing, fishing, et'
J. What good opportunity mamma ha
: to reveal themselves unto then
n selves" and to make them ashamed I
10 selfishness, laziness, and especially I
= disobedience.
a Surely in such country as our
It with varieties of opportunity for wor
W and play, with broad margin for pc
n sonal independence in its ideas of Ii
i erty, there is no reason why wol
y should become slavery or play dissip
ton. Happy the boy, man and fami
st whose life is such that they can scare
T. ly tell where work ends and play b
h gins, whose happiness is distribute
a quite equally through all the mont
D. of the year. 1t is possible. Try
J, The result is better than bank a
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